This Is Anarchy: Eight Ways the Black Lives Matter and Justice for George Floyd Uprisings Reflect Anarchist Ideas in Action
Since Minneapolis police brutally murdered George Floyd on May 25, 2020, demonstrations have exploded across the US and the world. Millions of people have taken to the streets to demand justice for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and an end to police violence and terror, underscoring the need to eradicate systemic racism by radically transforming […]
Five Ways You Can Engage in Mutual Aid Now!
What is Mutual Aid? Mutual aid is the basic principle of anarchism and the fundamental way that anarchists differentiate their vision from capitalism and the state. Simply put, we believe that humanity can fulfill its needs and desires better through cooperation than through competition. In fact, anarchists have been arguing almost since the movement began […]
IADF: AFund on challenges in solidarity work: interview to Freedom News
The International Anarchist Defence Fund turns one year old this month so to celebrate, the IADF shares some thoughts on anarchist solidarity work and the issues that influenced the collective’s creation. Our collective solidarity structure provides support to anarchists and anarchist sympathisers around the world who are persecuted or find themselves in a difficult life […]
Vice, “How Anarchists Helped Californian Fire Refugees in a Walmart Parking Lot”
Before the fire, the Walmart parking lot in Chico, California, was already a natural place for people to seek a kind of refuge if they didn’t have other places to stay. According to Steve Breedlove, a local anarchist activist, the superstore turned a blind eye when people passing through town parked overnight and slept in […]
Splinter, “The Grassroots Movement to Transform Our Broken Disaster Relief System”
It would have been a beautiful autumn day in Oakland, if not for the haze. Standing in a parking lot next to the iconic Lake Merritt, the smoke hung over everything, turning the sky a bluish beige and blurring anything more than a few hundred yards away. A few volunteers and reporters milled about in […]
KNKX, “The Bike-Based, Anarchist Public Health Project That’s Keeping People Alive On Olympia’s Streets”
“A volunteer-run, bicycle-based, 365-night-a-year street outreach program with basic emergency supplies and syringe exchange and naloxone distribution…. In Olympia, Washington.” That’s how volunteer Cassie Burke describes the Emma Goldman Youth and Homeless Outreach Project, or EGYHOP. It’s been going for about two decades on the streets of downtown Olympia. As a practical matter, on one […]
Agency’s Aug / Sept Top Podcast Picks from Channel Zero
Sick of the same old news from the mainstream? Check out Agency’s podcast recommendations from our friends over at the Channel Zero Anarchist Podcast Network! Supporting anarchist media is a vital aspect of developing community resilience and solidarity with those whose voices are usually silenced by the dominant media institutions, so please show your love […]
Times Union, “Millennial survivalists share downtown squat, anarchist ideals”
David Gunn had just been released from the hospital after trying to kill himself when he met the fallen beauty who changed his life. It was a downtown Albany townhome painted ivory, abandoned years ago but with its elegant bones and tall glass windows intact. Gunn, 30, climbed the wooden stoop and turned the doorknob. […]
Newsweek, “Puerto Rican ‘Anarchistic Organizers’ Took Power Into Their Own Hands After Hurricane Maria”
In August, nearly one year after Hurricane Maria wrecked Puerto Rico’s electrical grid and plunged its 3.4 million residents into darkness, island officials heralded a milestone: The lights were back on. The state-owned electric company even tweeted a photo of a smiling family it said was the last to receive power. But Christine Nieves, an […]
Mel Magazine, “Anarchy in the U-S-A”
Last year, squads of young men and women in black clothes, masks and bandanas crept out to the streets of Portland, Oregon, with bags of asphalt in hand. This wasn’t about Neo-Nazis, law enforcement, immigration rights or other prickly issues millennials have demonstrated a passion for. They took to the streets for one purpose only: […]